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Introduction: Chest pain is the leading cause of urgent admission to the Emergency Department (ED) in western countries.Acute Coronary Syndrome(ACS) continues to be among the most difficult to predict or diagnose. Misdiagnoses may lead to discharge of patients with ACS, who should have been admitted as well as costly unnecessary ...

Background and Significance Standard-of-care risk-stratification algorithm (SOC): In the past 20 years since Goldman et al4 described a clinical algorithm to predict MI in ED patients, the clinical ability to decrease the false-negative rate for myocardial events has not improved. Hence, the emergency physician (EP) is compelled to admit to ...